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Re: C coding problem

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From: Peter Davie
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:49
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In article: <4io1io$no4@solutions.solon.com>  schwarz@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Konrad Schwarz) writes:
> 
> I recently wrote a loop that went like this:
> 
> while (p < end_p)
> 	++*p++;
> 
> Maybe some will find it a counter-example; I think it's good
> code that embodies the way C is designed to work.  Arrays are
> second rate objects in C.  Use pointers.
> 
> Konrad Schwarz
> 

It seems to me that there are three types of programmers:

1. Bad ones.
2. Good ones.
3. Very good ones.

I would place you in category two. 

My definition of a very good programmer would be someone who writes good code that even bad programmers can understand.

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